i have attended town hall meetings and tac meetings and that none of those was a single operating permit discussed. there were ideas about why it would not work and how it could. if your for your approval is an idea that one has been tried in other cities and has not been discussed by us. at the very least i would hope you would continue this item so it can be discussed and can be vetted. there is an rfp going out for the study. i would think that is what we want to wait for. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> dan hines, ed healy, and mari. >> i am president of national veterans cab company. i would like to speak specifically on the item listed under 12. the single user permit issue. i support exploring a single user permit approach. for the drivers, the user permit offers the enormous advantage of allowing them to choose * at peak demand to service the public. for the public, the advantage is the period of peak demand is when the public is underserved. i buy-sell approach can be developed. such a program could to buy additional ownership opportunities to working drivers and gener

us don't have a nick or a cut on their hand and are you going to touch someone's blood and your in tac skin will protect you from most ilknows. however, if you have a cut on your hand you have a path for infection to get inside of you and you want a pair of latex gloves -- several pairs of glo gloves that you can put on and change as you go from patient t patient hopefully and at least wash your hands and disinfect your hands between patient contacts and the eyes are like an open wound and path to get into your body and glasses and take the old glasses and throw them in your kit and you have something to wear and face mask and of course dust and dirt and all of these disasters throw up dust and dirt and especially in a dryer season and push comes t shove a band da bandana. and after a disaster is not the time to let your hygiene slip and it's a time to tighten it u and communitycable diseases and if it's wet and not yours don't touch it. gloves and every patient contac and don't touch blood and it's good rule to live by. hepatitis a and sal min nillia and geria and assumed to be in the

. >> you've learned a lot about a group known as tac ops, tactical operations. they do? >> this is a top-secret -- actually seven teams of ten agents each, who are essentially court sanctioned burglars as they describe themselves. they break into homes, offices, even embassies, to plant bugging devices and snoop into computers. could be terrorists, could be mafia figures, and all secret, of course. they will check out the premises for weeks. they'll find out if there are any dogs. if there are, they'll have a veterinarian prescribe the right amount of tranquilizer based on a photograph. they'll shoot the dog with a dart gun with a tranquilizer and put him out. and then at the end they'll wake him up. they will actually create false fronts to homes or offices, and then behind those false fronts, in the middle of the night, they will pick the locks. >> that's how they were able to bring down john gotti, too, using some of those false fronts, correct? >> they, in that case, they installed electrical outlets that actually were bugging devices. the fbi actually showe

. >> we have a tac team and a chase team that's made up of correctional officers.e have dogs trained on tracking. >> trained dogs play an important role at elayn hunt. this one has tracked down an officer posing as an escaped inmate. >> if this had been the real deal, the dog caught within five to six minutes. >> one of the newest dogs at the prison is named canine robby. >> robby is not trained to kill. he is trained to help apprehend and a visual that may be hiding in a building or is not cooperating with orders. if the individual is still fighting, then the dog has to be physically removed because the individual is moving. the dog won't come off. i consider canine robby as a partner. i feel confident that he can handle has he is certified to do. >> that's a good boy. that's a good man. that's a good man. >> up next, one inmate's fall from football stardom to a life behind bars. >> i lost my family. that's the biggest thing i deal with every day. ease of cooking is very important to me. perdue perfect portions is great on busy nights. five chicken breasts individ

we're getting ready to k go tac bto the progr, but let's take one more look at our thank you ac >> ifill: and to our second education story about changes to the law known as "no chi left behind." nearly a decade after it was enacted, a growing number of schools are having trouble meeting the law's benchmarks. states had been required to achieve 100% proficiency in reading and math by 2014. but today, education secretary arne duncan said the president would sign an executive order to allow schools who are still falling short to circumvent the law. >> the law no child left behind as it currently stands is four years overdue for being rewritten. it is far too punitive. it's far too prescriptive. led to a dumbing-down of standards, led to a narrowing of the curriculum. at a time when we have to get better faster education than we had ever, we can't afford to have the law of the land be one that has so many disincentives to the kind of progress we want to see. >> ifill: for more, we are joined by justin snider. he's a contributing editor at the "hechinger report," a nonprofit news organizatio

. >> i put tic-tacs on my debit cards. i am so bad about carrying cash. that program. it's kind scary to me but we'll get into it in a few minutes. we'll see. >>> first we have new details overnight of the president's new plan to spur economic growth and create new jobs. he now wants $350 million to help small businesses in rural areas as well as conferences to help connect investors with rural startups. >> the plan also calls for the usda to allow citizens to access labor department job search information at its 2,800 field offices nationwide and rural hospitals to be given money to recruit more doctors. the president will unveil this new plan later today during a stop in iowa. abc's john hendren joins us from washington with more on the president's new message. john? >> reporter:r: good morning, ro and diana. the president started his three-day tour talking economics in minnesota reserve that's home to michele bachmann, who just happens to have a newly p prominent positi at the head of the republicacan 2012 pack. the president's midwestern bus tour, his

in the 2008 sea-tac all that happened was mitt romney withdrew from the presidential race.e to affect anything. mitt romney was pretty clear favorite among those attendees except for ron paul who stuffed the ballot box. will be great to have that in florida in orlando in september. maybe they can have some influence but i am doing a book signing. >> host: signing book that heritage a few weeks ago. why don't you sign books? is it something you dislike? >> guest: it has always been because i feel like i have to rely -- i trust no one to help me get my word out. you have to rely on a third party to advertise the book signing. i have shown up with another famous author. newaukum into a bookstore. won't mention him because it was walking in with him that was humiliation that made me decide i am never doing that. there was nobody there. barnes and noble put up a pathetic sign. no one even knew, he was world-famous. we walk in and he sits for five minutes and we go out and have a drink. you have to rely on somebody else to get the word out the same way i know longer bother submit